Everything seemed perfectly fine with Iman Shumpert during the Knicks’ preseason game against the Celtics on Saturday. Little did anyone know that a travesty was about to be perpetrated.
Sometime between Saturday night and Monday morning, Shumpert cut off his signature flat top and went with a standard fade ‘do. A photo posted on Instagram by Jonah Ballow, multimedia content creator for the Knicks, broke the unfortunate news.
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Now, the loss of the flat top isn’t so terrible. Apart from the novelty, it’s not really a great look and probably took a lot of work to maintain. But the high flat top had become Shumpert’s defining physical characteristic over the last two years and it will now take longer than a half-second to find him whenever he is on the court.
Shumpert gave no hints that anything was awry in Manchester, N.H. on Saturday. Check out a photo of Shumpert prior to the game — with his flat top intact — below.
Photo via Twitter/@nyknicks
